To think or think about carefully and at length

• weigh

  1. To determine the weight of, as with a scale:
  2. To measure or apportion (a certain quantity) by weight. Often used with out:
  3. To balance in the mind in order to make a choice; ponder or evaluate:

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• turn over

  1. Used other than as an idiom: see turn,"Ž over.
  2. To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
  3. (idiomatic) To relinquish; give back.

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• think through

  1. To fully consider an action, and understand all its consequences.

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• think over

  1. (idiomatic) To ponder or reflect on a subject.

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• think out

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• think

  1. To have or formulate in the mind:
  2. To reason about or reflect on; ponder:
  3. To decide by reasoning, reflection, or pondering:

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• study

  1. The effort to acquire knowledge, as by reading, observation, or research:
  2. An act or effort made in the pursuit of knowledge:
  3. A branch of knowledge or department of learning:

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• ruminate

  1. To turn a matter over and over in the mind.
  2. To chew cud.
  3. To reflect on over and over again.

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• revolve

  1. To orbit a central point:
  2. To turn on an axis; rotate.
  3. To be arranged as revolving credit:

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• reflect

  1. To throw or bend back (light or sound, for example) from a surface.
  2. To give back or show an image of (an object); mirror.
  3. To make apparent; express or manifest:

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• ponder

  1. To think about (something) with thoroughness and care.
  2. To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care.

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• muse

  1. To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in thought.
  2. To consider or say thoughtfully:
  3. A state of reflection.

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• mull

  1. To heat and spice (wine, for example).

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• excogitate

  1. To consider or think (something) out carefully and thoroughly.

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• entertain

  1. To hold the attention of (someone) with something amusing or diverting.
  2. To extend hospitality toward:
  3. To consider; contemplate:

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• deliberate

  1. Done with or marked by full consciousness of the nature and effects; intentional:
  2. Arising from or marked by careful consideration:
  3. Unhurried and careful:

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• contemplate

  1. To look at attentively and thoughtfully:
  2. To consider carefully and at length; meditate on or ponder:
  3. To have in mind as an intention or possibility:

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• consider

  1. To think carefully about (something), especially before making a decision;
  2. To think or deem to be; regard as:
  3. To suppose or believe:

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• cogitate

  1. To take careful thought or think carefully about; ponder.

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• chew on

  1. (idiomatic) to consider, to ponder

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To muse

• chew-the-cud

  1. (idiomatic, of a person) to meditate or ponder before answering; to be deep in thought; to ruminate

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• be in a brown study

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• mull-over

  1. To think deeply about something; to ponder, deliberate or ruminate.

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• dream

  1. A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.
  2. A daydream; a reverie.
  3. A state of abstraction; a trance:

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• entertain the idea

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• cherish the idea

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• be in an abstraction

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• cogitate

  1. To take careful thought or think carefully about; ponder.

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• brood over

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• view

  1. An examination using the eyes; a look:
  2. Field of vision:
  3. A scene or vista:

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• reflect

  1. To throw or bend back (light or sound, for example) from a surface.
  2. To give back or show an image of (an object); mirror.
  3. To make apparent; express or manifest:

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• say to oneself

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• revolve

  1. To orbit a central point:
  2. To turn on an axis; rotate.
  3. To be arranged as revolving credit:

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• muse

  1. To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in thought.
  2. To consider or say thoughtfully:
  3. A state of reflection.

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• ruminate

  1. To turn a matter over and over in the mind.
  2. To chew cud.
  3. To reflect on over and over again.

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• contemplate

  1. To look at attentively and thoughtfully:
  2. To consider carefully and at length; meditate on or ponder:
  3. To have in mind as an intention or possibility:

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• study

  1. The effort to acquire knowledge, as by reading, observation, or research:
  2. An act or effort made in the pursuit of knowledge:
  3. A branch of knowledge or department of learning:

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• ponder

  1. To think about (something) with thoroughness and care.
  2. To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care.

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To think over

• speculate

  1. To engage in a course of reasoning often based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or theorize.
  2. To engage in the buying or selling of a commodity with an element of risk on the chance of profit.
  3. To assume to be true without conclusive evidence:

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• consider

  1. To think carefully about (something), especially before making a decision;
  2. To think or deem to be; regard as:
  3. To suppose or believe:

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• weigh

  1. To determine the weight of, as with a scale:
  2. To measure or apportion (a certain quantity) by weight. Often used with out:
  3. To balance in the mind in order to make a choice; ponder or evaluate:

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